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Andrew Carnegie

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owner of largest steel company

produced more steel than all the favorites in Europe

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Bessemer process

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injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities

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CF Dowd

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came up with concept of time zones and railroad time

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Christopher sholes

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invented the typewriter

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credit moblier

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railroad company formed by officials of the Union Pacific to pocket more profit for themselves
scheme included congressmen and Vice President

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Edwin drake

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successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil

started oil boom in America

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Eugene v debs

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formed the American railway Union which focused on unskilled and semiskilled laborers (larger share of profits for working classes)

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George Pullman

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built a factory and town to produce sleeping cars and other railway cars

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granger laws

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Series of legislation across the Midwest to protect farmers from abuses by the railroads.

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haymaker affair

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3,000 people gathered to protest police brutality
bomb was thrown at police. Eight people charged with inciting a riot
public doesn’t like unionism

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holding company

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did nothing but buy out the stock of competitors

consolidate businesses into one monopoly.

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horizontal integration

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Buying out competitors (similar products merge)

PRICE

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industrial workers of the world

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group of radical unionists and socialists

included miners, lumberers, and cannery and dock workers.

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interstate commerce act

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supervise railroad activity and set rates.

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John d Rockefeller

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established Standard Oil
largest and most powerful company in America.
company holds other company’s stock in trust agreements to control an industry.

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JP morgan

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Owner of large investment company
purchased railroads
turned them into giant trusts

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mother jones

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In order to expose the cruelties of child labor

led 80 mill children on a march to see President Roosevelt.

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munn vs Illinois

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Supreme Court case
upheld Granger Laws as constitutional
gave the states the right to regulate the railroads.

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robber baron

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derogatory term applied to wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen
exploitative practices to increase their wealth

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Samuel Gompers

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Led the Cigar makers union

joined it with the AFL

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Sherman antitrust act

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Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade (between states or with other countries.)

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social Darwinism

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Justifies the doctrine of laissez faire, stipulates that success and failure in business were governed by natural law no one had the right to intervene in business.

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steel

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suspension bridges and skyscrapers were now possible.

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Thomas Alva Edison

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Nicknamed the Wizard of Menlo Park, invented the incandescent light bulb and the system for producing and distributing electricity.

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transcontinental railroad

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Starting in Omaha, NE in the east and Sacramento, CA in the west, it meets in Promontory Point, UT.

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triangle shirtwaist fire

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146 women die in horrific blaze.

Public outrage force New York to set up a task force to study factory working conditions.

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vertical integration

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Buying out suppliers
controlled all production
COST

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Alexander graham bell

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developed telephone

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great strike of 1877

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started in Baltimore
spread to a of American
shut down railroads
federal troops ended strike

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yellow dog contracts

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laborer a were promising not to join unions

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yellow dog contracts

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laborer a were promising not to join unions

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